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After my kid’s birthday party with school friends last weekend (for which I made a No Face cake that I posted here) this weekend I made a Totoro cake for a family party, inspired by my kid’s drawings :) (i.e. the kiddo gave me clear instructions for making the cake; I was not to deviate Lol)

I got super frustrated trying to carve a fairly small cake for this so ended up making basically a big ol’ cake pop - smooshing the cake and frosting together, and molding it into shape.

The little buddies (do they have names?) cracked me up lol

And then the soot sprite brigadeiros were brought into school last week.

A very fun Ghibli themed birthday week indeed :) ❤️ less

My kid’s 10th bday party was finally today! (Their actual bday is next weekend; I know I’ve been posting a lot along the way). With so much thanks to many of you, we had an amazing Ghibli-themed event: Calcifer’s flames (Cheetos), Howl’s Potion Station (drinks with edible glitter and some fun sciency color tricks), Medicine from the River Spirit (peanut butter protein balls), Soot Sprite cake pops for favors, a No Face piñata with chocolate gold coins, Laputa crystals (agar candy someone here recommended - so much fun to make), tiny cacti for a living thing to nurture (as a take-home present), a cardboard drawing of No Face w a mouth cut out to toss frisbees in, etc.

This is the cake I ended up making: No Face in his gluttony era! (And omg he weighed like a billion lbs) I learned a lot in the process, and totally cracked myself up along the way.

Thanks for everyone’s help w ideas! ❤️ Now to collapse!

ETA: I’m not normally a fondant person, but I could not get black frosting dark enough so gave in. Don’t judge me or my crappy fondant work Lol